now, these three men, archie and miles copeland are trying to shape the cia's early program in the middle east, and as kim roosevelt's involvement in 1953 suggest this involves creating quite a lot of disorder in the middle east, attempts at the various operations and attempts that they say is a legacy of the anti-americanism, still troubles u.s. relations with the region today, but at the same time, these men were arabic. that is, they knew a great deal about the middle world and finding sympathetic towards it believing they had the best interest at heart. what this book attempts to do is capture this moment with the cia was most definitely pro-arab and ask, where did this impulse come from? where did it go? why did it eventually become eclipsed by other impulses in u.s. foreign policy? it came from the brich ire prior to u.s.' entry in the early years was cold war. the roosevelt cousins, in particular, were -- they were captivated by the example of british arabics, for example, te lawrence, lawrence ever arabia, they both read up, grew up reading his accounts, his involvement in world w